When we experience devastating and unpredictable life crises, it's often harder to apply to ourselves the lessons that we preach to our clients. In this workshop, a therapist and his family (wife, Kate, and sons, Michael and Sam) will discuss how they all dealt with his advanced cancer. We'll talk about the unexpected difficulties associated with recovery: the ways our lives have changed or haven't, the lessons we've learned and those we've already forgotten. Besides hearing about our story, participants will have an opportunity to share their own or their clients' life-changing struggles. Together, we'll question our assumptions about how "healthy" families should respond, how we handle our clinical responsibilities when our own lives are in turmoil, and how we can use our personal life experiences to help the families we treat.